Latest COVID-19 Update in Nigeria

Nigeria has recorded another lower new cases of COVID-19 in the last 24 hours.
This will be the second day running that Nigeria will be recording new infections lower than 400. From today’s 308 new cases, the Nigeria Centre for Disease and Control (NCDC) revealed on its website that Lagos, the epicenter has 81 new cases, followed by the FCT with 39.
Others include Abia-31, Kaduna-24, Rivers-23, Plateau-16, Cross River-13, Ebonyi-12, Ondo-12, Ekiti-11, Edo-11, Benue-10, Nasarawa-10, Ogun-6,  and Gombe-5.
Out of the 43,841 confirmed cases,  20,308 patients were discharged while 888 deaths have been recorded so far.

Confirmed Cases by State

States AffectedNo. of Cases (Lab Confirmed)No. of Cases (on admission)No. DischargedNo. of Deaths
Lagos15,26712,9152,160192
FCT3,9722,7591,17142
Oyo2,7681,3781,36327
Edo2,3113351,89284
Rivers1,8293121,46453
Kano1,5972861,25853
Delta1,5101081,35943
Kaduna1,4812421,22712
Ogun1,4032291,15123
Plateau1,22767453419
Ondo1,20453164825
Enugu82137842518
Ebonyi8084973326
Kwara75352121319
Katsina74526545723
Borno613956935
Gombe6126152823
Abia5821064715
Bauchi5602752013
Osun55327027112
Imo4693241369
Benue356285647
Nasarawa3391082238
Bayelsa3393927921
Jigawa322330811
Niger2237813312
Akwa Ibom221641507
Adamawa164698510
Sokoto154113716
Ekiti15283672
Anambra135487512
Kebbi904797
Zamfara771715
Yobe675548
Cross River5835194
Taraba5443110
Kogi5032

COVID-19: Parents protest N25,000 test fee in Ogun

Parents of private school pupils in Ogun State have protested a demand for N25,000 as a COVID-19 testing fee.

The government said it would bear the full cost of the test for boarding Senior Secondary Three (SS3) pupils in public schools while asking the private school owners to ensure that their boarding pupils are certified COVID-19-negative.

While further revealing that there was a negotiated discount in the cost of the COVID-19 test with some healthcare service providers, the state said that parents were free to use others.

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The state said private schools could also apply for a waiver. In showing their grievances, hundreds of parents and their wards took their protests to the 54gene COVID-19 Mobile Laboratory located within the state-owned MTR Specialist Hospital in Abeokuta, the state capital, were asked to pay N25,000 per pupil, blocked the hospital gate, insisting their children should be tested free like their counterparts in public schools.

Speaking, the Vice-Chairman, Parent Teachers Association (PTA) of the Taidob College, Abeokuta, Dr Kehinde Sanwo, said the pupils should be treated equally.

“The parents here are good citizens of Ogun State. We are taxpayers. When we arrived, we were told to pay N25,000, whereas, some people who arrived earlier paid nothing.

“We don’t know where the decision came from. Some of us have more than two children. Why this segregation?”

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